Old Tullamore Distillery

This article is about the Old Tullamore Distillery. For the new distillery which was established in 2014, see Tullamore Distillery.

Tullamore Distillery
LocationTullamore
Coordinates53°16′39.8″N 7°29′35.7″W / 53.277722°N 7.493250°W / 53.277722; -7.493250
Founded1829
FounderMichael Molloy
StatusDefunct / Museum since 2012
No. of stills4 pot stills: 2 x 16,000 gallons, 1 x 10,500 gallons, 1 x 5,500 gallons;[1] a Coffey still was added in 1948
Capacity500,000 gallons per annum[2]
Mothballed1954
Websitehttps://www.tullamoredew.com/en-gb/visit-us/
Tullamore Dew

The Old Tullamore Distillery was an Irish whiskey distillery which was established in Tullamore, County Offaly, Ireland, in 1829.[3] The original home of Tullamore Dew Irish whiskey, the distillery closed in 1954, having endured financial difficulties for many years, like many Irish whiskey distilleries of the early 20th century.[3]

The Tullamore Dew brand was later sold to John Powers & Co., now part of Irish Distillers, with production transferred to the Midleton Distillery. In 2010, the brand was purchased by William Grant & Sons, who invested €35 million in the construction of a new distillery in Tullamore. The new Tullamore Distillery opened in 2014, bringing production of the whiskey back to Tullamore following a break of sixty years.[4]

In 2012, a whiskey museum, the Tullamore Dew Visitor Centre, opened in a restored former bonded warehouse belonging to the old distillery on Bury Quay.[5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference :2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "The Willams Family and Tullamore Distillery". www.offalyhistory.com. Archived from the original on 13 December 2016. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  3. ^ a b Townsend, Brian (1999). The Lost Distilleries of Ireland. Glasgow: Neil Wilson Publishing. ISBN 1897784872.
  4. ^ Quann, Jack (17 September 2014). "New 35m Whiskey Distillery Opens in Tullamore". NewsTalk. Retrieved 14 January 2017 – via newstalk.com.
  5. ^ McLoughlin, Camilla (6 September 2012). "Tullamore Dew Visitor Centre Opens". Tullamore & District Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved 13 January 2017.